Photo Copyright Girgoris Miliaresis 2014   Nearly everyone in the gendai (modern) budo world talks about taking ukemi (receiving a techn...

  Iseki Sensei in his dojo.  Photo Copyright 2016 Peter Boylan I was in Japan in November to take my 5th dan test in jodo. I arrive...

Not the throws. Watch the ukemi! I step wrong and my partner takes advantage, tips me slightly, steps across in front of me, drop...

I am obsessed with developing proper koshi . My iai teacher, Kiyama Hiroshi, has been kicking my butt about my koshi for decades, and I’m ...

In most systems of budo, it takes two people to train. On one side is the person studying the technique or kata.  The other person is not...